Gas Grenades

Google inc

Posted 29 July 2016 - 11:34 AM

Google inc

11 posts

So now this idea is mainly about making a grenade that dispenses (not sure if I spelled it right) deadly smoke, which (ofcourse) dissappeares by time. The better (higher level ) is the nade the more, the smoke stays. Now there will be 2 types of grenades: 1 smoke that WILL NOT do any harm if you have a gas mask on. And second one is the one that will do harm to the body itself. So if you have a gas mask on 1st grenade will not work on you but 2nd will (but if you don't have the gas mask on, 2nd will kill you a LOT more faster). Now the smoke will also work like cover. So if you have guys with gas masks on they can use this grenade like a simple smoke nade.

And ofcourse it will work on zombies..... but: not on elite scientists and gas mask elites (I hope that con really makes elites with masks) and some elites will even have high (very high) resistance to melee and firearms but gas nades will take em out easily.

passing player

Posted 29 July 2016 - 04:57 PM

Andrew Jones

Posted 29 July 2016 - 05:12 PM

Andrew Jones

242 posts

The only way I can see an idea like this working is if it works like a smoke grenade, where towers are immune, but it doesn't break line of sight. And for damage it would have to deal like 5 damage per second to anything inside the smoke, not preventing reload or causing suppression at all. And even then its a questionable idea that probably wouldn't work. This just seems like it would make melee exploiting even worse in my opinion.

Zingman

Posted 30 July 2016 - 12:00 AM

1)The gas would be effective (i.e. does a lot of damage) in which case without gas masks it's a grossly unfair advantage to the attacker since the defender(s) can't move.

2) The gas would be ineffective (i.e. does a small amount of damage) in which case the attacker would be better off using explosive grenades (and thus won't use the gas ones)

3) If gas masks are plentiful and easy to come by then they render gas grenades pointless Attackers would be better off taking explosive grenades, and the defenders would be using gas masks (likely with worse stats than what they would be wearing otherwise) as a precaution. If gas masks exist, but are not common/easy to get then it reverts to option 1.

Agrippas

Posted 30 July 2016 - 12:06 AM

Agrippas

181 posts

Yeah I just saw a video about how melee weapons are being exploited in raids. And this would just worsen the situation. Zingman even listed the possibilities of putting this into the game, and I don't find them attractive either.